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HENRY A. WISE WOOD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, .BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO

WOOD NEWSPAPER MACHINERY CORPORATION, OF NEW YORK,

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N. Y., A CORPORA- MACHINE FOR MAKING MAGAZINES AND THE LIKE.

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Be it knownthat I, HENRY A. VVrsulVooo, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in thecounty of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Machine for Making Magazines and the like, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the art of print-- ing books, magazines, and newspapers which are made up of several signatures, varying in character of paper and number of pages, together with inserts of one or more leaves.

The principal objects of this invention are to provide an organized mechanism for the purpose of making a whole magazine, book, newspaper, or the like, with perhaps the exception of an occasional insert, at asingle operation; to provide a practicable and efficient machine or plant for this purpose of great flexibility in the-order and arrangement of the products of the several presses, so that signatures can be introduced into the magazine in. any desired order, and so that sheets or signatures from a'press or feeding device can be introduced either as inserts or onserts at will; and to provide a novel arrangement and combination of two or more printing presses or decks of the same or dissimilar types, with other mechanism whereby relatively low grade and high grade work can be done simultaneously at different speeds and delivered at the same speed. one slowly printed product for each rapidly printed product; and to provide improvements in the relative arrangement and connection of the several parts, of such a nature that the books, magazines, or the like (an be produced at a very high speed, with out the intervention of workmen beyond the reparation of some of the various'parts. In this way what is becoming a most important item in the manufacture of magazines, namely, the timerequired to produce a complete article, is materially reduced. Another object of the invention is to save space, and a further object is to reduce labor vcent thereto;

Specification of Letters Patent. Patentgd July 1(1) 191*? Application filed September 7, 1910. Serial No. 580,870.

and expense, The invention also involves several improvements in combinations of parts and details of construction, particularly in the gathering mechanism, and covering device, as will appear hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a diagrammatic side view of a magazine making machine constructed in accordance with this invention;

Fig. 2 is a side view on an enlarged scale of a portion of the gathering mechanism and of the folding mechanism;

Fig. 3 'is a plan of the mechanism shown in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing a modification;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary plan of the same;

Fig. 6 is a plan of avp'ortion of the machine shown in Fig. -1 illustrating the plate cylinder and turning bars;

Fig. 7 is a side view of the delivery;

Fig. 8 is an end elevation thereof;

Fig. 9 is a plan of a portion of the gathering drum showing delivery mechanism adj a- Fig. 10 is a diagrammatic side view of one of the arrangements for feeding an insert to the front or back of the sheets from two of the decks of the press, on enlarged scale.

Figs. 11, 12, 13 and 14 are similar views showing modifications;

Fig. 15 is an enlarged diagrammatic view showing the course of the web through one of the folding and cutting devices shown in Fig. 13.

Fig. 1.6 is a similar view showing how the onsert is applied.

Fig. 17 is a similar view showing another course of the web. I

Fig. 18 is a similar view showing the application of an insert. I

Fig. 19 is' an enlarged view showing details of the same.

' v incense ferent fields, toward similar products of different forms occupying similar fields. Formerly the daily newspaper was almost entirely a news publication, and the magazine a literary one. But now the Sunday, and even daily newspapers, contain constantly increasing amounts of matter that has no direct relation to news and that may be prepared and run considerably in advance of the time of publication; while the magazines areconsta'ntly adding matter that is of the character of news, and needs to be treated as such, with ala'crity. It-is clear, therefore, that the two kinds of printing, one rapid and the other deliberate and artistic are being combined in the same publication to a constantly increasing extent. And this tendency is one that will become more rather than less pronounced as time goes on.

For these reasons it is becoming more and more necessary to print the news portions of magazines rapidly and at the last moment before the time of publication.

It is now the practice to begin all the slow work first and the quick work afterward in order that the whole may come together and be ready for assemblage'and publication at the same time; that is, during the manufacture of the magazine its different kinds of )a es are bein 7'1'l11l38d at different times and in diflerent places, and those which are printed first are accumulated and stored until they are needed to be used.- The various parts when printed are folded. and their several operations done at various. times, are

taken away by hand, and by hand are placed in the hopper of an assembling machine by which they are made into single bundles of a magazine each, then stitched and covered. For example, after the various parts are printed, those that are made on cylinder presses mustbe taken by hand to folding machines and folded, some of them to produce signatures of sixteen pages, and others of eight, four, or two pages. Then they must be removed from the folding machines by hand, stored till. needed and then placed by hand in the assembling or gathering machine referred to. The parts made and folded by rotary presses must likewise be bundled and carried to the gathering machine; while the inserts. which are printed upon large sheets, must be put under cutting machines by hand, out to the proper size, and

seen that the proper performance of these operations requires a high degree of expensive labor, and that the actual work requires a great deal of space, time, and skill. As has beenstatedthis invention has been made so that practically a whole magazine,

or the like, may be made at a single operation. By coordinating a number of various printing presses and other devices ordinarily employed, and devising new ones to perform slow functions quickly the whole book is produced at a single operation, so to speak, of the combined machinery, and it is delivered immediately ready for sale, at a very high rate of speed.

The several features ofthe invention cen- 'ter about a gathering device R shown in Fig. 1, in the form of a large rotating drum. This is usually made of a width equal to the length of one of the pages to be printed, but may be double width,in which case some other elements are made double width. It may be considered that part of. the rest of the mechanism is for printing, and performing other operations upon signatures or sheets, and feeding them to this drum, and other parts for removing the product from it, gathering it into a bundle and. completing the magazine or the like; so the mechanism may be divided into three groups. It will be remembered that ithas been stated that one of the objects of the invention is to provide for accomplishing the results set forth above without dispens ing with or materially altering the printing and other machines now in use, so that, many .of the mechanisms of these machines which printing press 1}, A A A provided with any desired or usual kind ofin'king mechanism B, B, operating-in the usual or any well known way. Any number of presses can be arranged around the gathering device aiid a second one A is indicatedin dotted lines. If desired also the press or presses can be located in this dotted line or any other convenient position instead of the full line position. to deliver allof their printed products to the gathering device R.

The cylindersC ofthis press are divided up having a-plurality of plates C both longitudinally .and circumferentially. For the purpose of illustration each of these plate cylinders is shown as provided with thirty-two plates .arranged in'four circles of eight plates each, that is, each cylinder slit to form four webs.

ways. webs from the upper deck is omitted so thathas four plates along the cylinder and eight around it. These can all be original plates in some cases or two sets of duplicate ones in others. WVit-h this arrangement each presscan be made toprint thirty-two impressions on a web at each revolution. The web, having four impressions across it, is

It will be understood of course that plate cylinders having different arrangementsof plates can be used to print a smaller or larger number of pages and thatany kind of inking mechanism is employed so as to print in black or colors as desired; In the drawings two kinds of inking mechanism are shown on two of the decks, the others being omitted for the sake of clearness.

Located adjacent to the plate cylinders C are slitting devices D each having slitting cutters D opposite the circumferential spaces between the plates C. Each deck also is provided with turning bars E, E E E so as to cross and associate the webs and bring them to a one-page width or two page width as desired. tween these narrow webs this allows two similar or different magazines to be delivered at the same time.

In the form shown in Fig. 1, the upper and lower deck A and A are shown'as arranged to produce four webs each, and mechanism is provided by which after these webs are associated by, the turning bars so as to come one over the other they can all be, passed to the drum R in a plurality of However, as illustrated. one of the only three signatures are being produced by that deck. This shows how the machine can be used for magazines of various makeup. The lower andupper decks in the arrangement shown are delivering to the gathering drum four page signatures from four of the cutting, collecting, and folding devices. The two center decks A and A are shown delivering eight-page signatures from two cutting. collecting and folding devices F. It will be understood of course that if the magazine requires a different number or size of signatures of this kind at this point the presses will be run in a different way. as for example, each of the center decks may run its webs to one of the devices F or some of the webs maybe omitted altogether if that is required by the conditions. In

that case one or more of the collecting devices F will be idle.

The combined .cuttin collecting and folding devices can be constructed as is now common in this industry. the form shown in Fig. 2 comprising a folding cylinder i and a cutting and collecting cylinder 7. On the latter is a knife 7 and pins f The pins carry the sheet around the cylinder and sheet.

lVith a space be-.

impose it on the following sheet when the sheets are to be collected. In this form the pins are pivoted and mechanism f which is well known in this .art is provided to pull them into the cylinder to strip from the This mechanism is not illustrated and described in full as it is so well known. The cylinder 7, which is shown as of twice the diameter of the cylinder 7', has cutting grooves f, to cooperate with the cutting knives, and pins f for carrying the sheets around to be folded. These pins a re shown as pivoted and operated by mechanism f like the other pins. It also has folding blades f which operate in the usual manner to fold the sheets into the rolls 7, cam rolls f being employed as usual. The

folded signature is then guided by the guides P to the gathering drum where it 1s receivedcloy pins r, rippers or the like. In this case these pins areshow-n as mounted on levers r actuated by springs r to transfer the signatures to the gathering drum B. These levers have cam rollers 1" which are operated by a cam r to withdraw the pins periodically. All of the pins described can be made stationary if desired, as shown in Figs. and 5. vided with throw-offs f f etc-., to strip the sheets from the pins, these throw-oil's being operated in a well known manner as understood in this art. It will be understood, of course, that other equivalents of this mechanism can be employed .so long as a plurality of elements are located along the operating surface of the gathering device to take the signatures from the several printing machines or decks and deliver them to the gathering device which takes them up and delivers them in 'the proper order to the delivery cylinder which will be described hereinafter.

"In addition to what, has been described it is to be understood that the presses or decks referred to need not be of the same character, as it is one expressed purpose of this invention to provide for usingmany types of printing presses in the same machine. In this character of work it is common to use both flat sheet bed and rotary web presses, and it is preferred that the ordinary high-speed web presses be employed for the work that has been described above,

and that fiat presses be employed for the several arrangements are illustrated herein and referred to as used for the purpose of In this case they are pro- 

